Assessments are runaround of tax caps

The 1 percent property tax cap was one of the best pea-in-shell games played by the politicians of Indiana and former Gov. Mitch Daniels. They may have capped taxes at 1 percent, but they knew every taxing district would play games with assessments. Here we have a national housing market that clearly shows the value of homes went down and the assessors claim the values are going up. This has provided local taxing districts a simple way to get around the 1 percent cap. It becomes difficult for the individual homeowner to fight the assessor and many citizens have no idea how to combat a property assessment increase. So homes go down in actual value in the real world and up in assessment to keep up government revenues.

Joe Weingarten

Fishers

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Assessments are runaround of tax caps

The 1 percent property tax cap was one of the best pea-in-shell games played by the politicians of Indiana and former Gov. Mitch Daniels.